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Open University – Did you learn anything? https://www.didyoulearnanything.net An archived blog about education, language, peace, and other fine things Mon, 26 Jun 2023 19:09:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 [Video] The History of English in 10 Minutes https://www.didyoulearnanything.net/blog/2012/04/17/video-the-history-of-english-in-ten-minutes/ Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:59:52 +0000 http://www.didyoulearnanything.net/?p=2091 Continue reading [Video] The History of English in 10 Minutes →]]> Here’s an excellent and hilarious quick primer on the history of the English language, brought to you by the Open University:

As is the norm in popular language science, 100% of the examples are words and phrases, without a word said about actual structural changes (which in many ways are more significant.)  But I won’t peeve now.  For a ten-minute cartoon, this is both very informative and very funny, and I can only recommend you watch it.

(H/t J.W.!)

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